Corset



J. K. ROSS.

(No Model.)

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Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN K. ROSS, OF NEWARK, NEIV JERSEY.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,690, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed August 14, 1890. Serial No. 361,977. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN K. Ross, a cit-izen of the United States, residing at Newark. Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention consists in the particular construction herein shown and described for the sides of a corset, whereby the required flexibility of that portion inclosing the hips and the desired stiffness of the remainder of the corset are secured.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 a side View, of a corset embodying myimprovements. Fig. 3 is a section of one of the sides on line 00 a: in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view of the pieces or sections of fabric forming the lower portion of the sides, and Fig. 5 a view of the upper sections of the sides.

The invention is shown herein applied to a corset composed of a series of vertical strips of fabric united along their adjacent edges by stiffeners s, and having such strips at the sides divided transversely into upper and lower sections on a curve between the waist and the hips.

a h c are the upper sections having their lateral edges of suitable form to give the upper portion of the corset the desired shape, the strips a and 0 having their lower edges curved concavely, so that when applied to the corset they will form a continuous curve about the hips of the wearer below the waist.

a b c are the lower sect-ions having their lateral edges formed like the upper sections to give the desired shape to the lower portion of the corset, and the sections a and 0 having their upper edges curved convexly as a complement to the adjacent edges of the sections a and c.

The upper portion of the sides of the corset are formed of two thicknesses of fabric composed each of sections CL 1) c, and the lower portion of a single thickness composed of the sections a b 0', having their upper edges secured between the lower edges of the upper sections, as shown in Fig. 3, in which the upper sections are lettered h and b and the lower section, having its upper sections interposed between the lower edges of the sections 1) and b lettered b.

In Figs. 4 and 5 a line of stitching is indicated as applied to the edges of the several sections as the means of attachment of the same to each other, and to the bindings and the stiffeners 3.

Having thus set forth the nature of my invention, what I claim herein is- A corset composed of a series of vertical strips fastened together along their adjacent edges, the sides of the corset being formed with the sections a, I), and cof a double thickness extending from the top downward and terminating below the waist in a curve about the hips, and the sections a, b, and c of a single thickness extending upward with their upper edges secured to the lower edges of the sections a b c, substantially as shown and de scribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOIIN K. ROSS.

Witnesses:

THos. W. J ACKSON, W. J NO. MITCHELL. 

